tribe and people, he suggested that instances of disapproval of homosexuality, at least among American Indians, can be traced to Christian influences. He mentioned that in Depression years, male prostitutes among Southern California Indians charged a standard price of twobits.

Color slides of the Mattachine offices were shown Sunday morning, followed by a panel discussion chaired by Arthur Maule of New York, in which Miss Del Martin, President of the Daughters of Bilitis, and James Kepner, chairman of ONE, talked a bit too long to give Harold Call, representing the Society, much of a chance to speak. Miss Martin, after outlining briefly the aims and purposes of the exclusive Lesbian organization, which now has added to its San Francisco headquarters chapters in New York and Los Angeles, reported on the very fine research project the Daughters have carried out in the past year, attempting to determine the general social status and degree of adjustment of their members. And she pointed up several snags they had run up against, with improperly worded questions. This excellent paper, containing a number of surprising conclusions, has now been printed in the Sept. 1959 issue of The Ladder and will be reprinted in ONE INSTITUTE QUARTERLY.

Mr. Kepner discussed the differences and similarities between the various organizations, suggesting that ONE addressed its voice chiefly to the homosexual and the Society more to the general public.

This was followed by an auto excursion to Central City, Lucius Beebe's lavish old gold mining town near Denver, site of the oldest Opera House in the West. Several members got themselves photoed in front of the "Glory Hole" there -a gay bar.

The Annual Business Meeting was held on Monday. New officers were elected (MacDonald Sardeson of San Francisco as chairman, Harry Bateman of Denver as vice chairman) and Los Angeles was chosen (if reactivated) as the site of the next convention-1960 being the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Mattachine movement in Los Angeles.

The Daughters of Bilitis had an orientation meeting Monday with a group of prospective members from Denver, and following that, ONE Institute had the first of three extension classes, the other two being on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.

This reporter left Denver with a glow. The convention was a huge success. The press coverage was revolutionary. The Denver group of the Society left all the visitors full of admiration.

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